With all of the scandals currently engulfing the Liberals how in the world will they be able to resort to their old tactic of painting Stephen Harper as a shadowy, scary figure with a hidden agenda? The only thing scary around here is the Liberal Party of Canada and its desperate bid to grab as [...]

It’s only been a year but what a ride it’s been. Since its birth one year ago today, the Blogging Tories have ballooned to include more than 200 sites collectively viewed by more than 30,000 daily. Just like the Conservative Party, the Blogging Tories is a big tent association of bloggers who come from the [...]

Due to the current festivities I haven’t been devoting my full attention to the Klander story but the more I look at it the more I’m repulsed by it. I’ve already commented on my disgust with respect to Klander comparing Olivia Chow to a dog and his calling Jack Layton an asshole. But that’s only [...]

How can you tell we’re in the middle of an election campaign? Paul Martin continues to play Captain Canada fighting the threat posed by the imaginary enemy, the US of A, at every turn. First he criticized the Americans for failing to sign onto Kyoto, despite the fact our own record is far worse, now [...]

In blogging we all like to have fun and that includes photo fun. God knows I’ve participated in my fair share of “photoshoppery” satire but there is a line that one does not cross. It doesn’t have to be explained, it doesn’t require pictures to be drawn. Anyone with any degree of common sense knows [...]

Every now and then I peek into my junk email folder to see what kinds of crap my program is filtering out. It’s usually filled with the same stuff - offers of free credit, online poker sites, penis enlargements, dating sites and those ever enjoyable “I need your assistance in moving a large amount of [...]

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone at the Blogging Tories a very Merry Christmas! I am honoured to be associated with such a fine group of bloggers. I sincerely mean that. Although I’ve never met any of you the sense of family is there.
A very Merry Christmas as well to everyone [...]

Manitoba’s NDP government must be taking lessons from Paul Martin’s Liberals. Repeating a pledge made earlier in the year the NDP promised a reduction in provincial income taxes in the amount of half a percentage point for the middle-income bracket effective 01 January 2006. According to data from the Winnipeg Sun this means a family [...]

Officials at the University of Manitoba had long suspected a copy of the King James Bible in their possession was a first edition but could never prove it - that is until now.

Scholars at the University of Manitoba received a priceless pre-Christmas present recently, when a tome in their collection turned out to be [...]

The CBC finally weighs in on the Income Trust story in a segment on the National. And it’s surprisingly not very flattering as far as the feds are concerned. Head over to Blogging Tories member M.K. Braaten to get the video.